Friday, March 26, 2010

The Wheel rolls out of Dothan, some translator updates, and Montgomery's new sports talk is offically a Ticket

The clever WEEL calls have disappeared in Dothan, much like the signal of the troubled station recently.  Looks like they've picked up the calls WCNF instead.  To be honest, I'm not even sure if this station is on the air yet or still silent.  Anyone know?

Montgomery's WQLS 1210 picked up a translator at 107.5 MHz recently and is now Montgomery's newest FM sports talk station as "The Ticket".  The calls recently changed to match as WTXK.  Well, sort of match.

The translator dances in Huntsville are getting more crowded each day.  This time it's the WEKI/WTKI talk duo that recently returned to the airwaves, picking up their second translator in the area, W232BX in Decatur.  This follows on them picking up a translator in the Huntsville area.  Presumably WEKI feeds the Decatur station and WTKI feeds the Huntsville one.  That means, for one station, you can now tune to them on four different dial positions: 92.9-94.3-1450-1490.  Crazy stuff.

Finally, the off-air-but-the-FCC-is-none-the-wiser translator W286AQ has received a permit to move again, this time from Vance to east of West Blocton in the quaintly-named Belle Ellen area.  The final destination?  Who knows, it's a puzzle.  Bibb County only has one radio station, the aptly named WBIB in Centreville.  And they already have an FM translator.  Birmingham seems to be the direction it's headed, but there's already a (silent but the FCC don't know it) translator on 105.1 in Alabaster.

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